Autograph letter signed : Higham, to William Macready, 1869 July 20.

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Autograph letter signed : Higham, to William Macready, 1869 July 20.

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Reporting that his health is very good, and that scarcely a day has gone by that the Dickens' family do not talk of the Macreadys. Mentioning that Harry has taken a scholarship at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, that Wills has retired "in consequence of his broken health," and that Charley is the new sub-editor of All the Year Round. Describing a sermon in which the curate [the Rev. Lewis Price] noted that "Our Saviour will very shortly appear upon earth 'to assert and avenge himself, '" and exclaiming "pretty well this, within 30 miles of London, halfway through 1869!!!" With a postscript mentioning Forster's health.

1 item (4 p.) ; 17.6 cm.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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